Word: toed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week many Atlanta parents were rallying to a new organization called HOPE (Help Our Public Education), whose 30,000 supporters hope to rouse the whole state to the danger. But many more parents are ignoring public schools. This year the city's 21 Roman Catholic schools, all segregated...
To take the "lock step" out of U.S. schools and get every child moving at his own pace, the mighty Fund for the Advancement of Education has spent $12.3 million in the past two years. Last week Fund President Clarence H. Faust suggested that the job has just begun. In...
"Preoccupation with the manpower aspects of education, however statesmanlike," wrote Faust, "runs into the fundamental question whether the individual exists for society or society for the individual. On this question, the American commitment would seem to be clear, that the individual is not primarily to be regarded as a resource...
To hear some U.S. polemicists tell it, the goals of American education should match those of the Russians. Not so, warned Faust. The aims of Communist education are unquestioning obedience and technological specialization in the service of the state. The vastly different American ideal focuses on "the development of each...
Yet this ideal, Faust believes, is becoming overlooked in the increasingly specializing U.S. Faust hopes that more public debate will help matters. "Perhaps we may even come to see that education should not be conceived of primarily as a means to an end, but as an end in itself, that...